The Unite the Right rally spurred outrage from celebrities, activists and media personalities who could not believe President Donald Trump's weak and tempered response to the unrest and violence coming from the united group of Confederate supporters, neo-Nazis and various other white nationalist groups.
News about Saturday's protest was dominated by 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr.'s attack on counter-protesters. He was arrested after ramming a Dodge Challenger into a crowd of protesters and bystanders killing one and injuring 19.
All of this unrest was over the planned removal of a General Robert E. Lee statue in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Celebrities
Where is your "fire and fury" at the neo-nazis, Donald? Why aren't they facing "big, big trouble" soon?
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 13, 2017
Please retweet this a bazillion times! https://t.co/vqLwk3oMnz
— Eric Benét (@ebenet) August 12, 2017
The face of racial 'superiority,' depravity, weakness – a criminal thug. It is what it is and always has been. https://t.co/t2kkmB0Kos
— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) August 13, 2017
We have nazi sympathizers and white nationalists in the White House. Condemn them too. They should not be receiving taxpayer money.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) August 12, 2017
CALL IT WHAT IT IS. IT. IS. TERRORISM.
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) August 12, 2017
If anyone feels unsafe at UVA and needs help to transfer schools let me know. https://t.co/H3UfAZoikM
— Lecrae (@lecrae) August 12, 2017
Activists
Remember when media outlets kept describing white nationalists as "dapper" "well-dressed" "clean shaven" & cast them as some new ideology? pic.twitter.com/93fyTOI7zj
— Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) August 12, 2017
I know this s hard to hear, but…
White supremacy benefits all white people.
Including the ones with no torches. That’s why it survives.
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) August 12, 2017
1. I think that I just figured out why what happened in #Charlottesville was so jarring for me. It wasn't simply that Nazis showed up and
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
2. Became violent, it was the fact thay they showed up and became violent while virtually every institution failed counterprotesters and
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
3. The black folks who were targeted. The cops fucking did nothing to stop Nazis from committing violent hate crimes and 45 went on tv and
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
4. Refused to condemn these folks. Like even though this shit is expected it's still sort of a double pain knowing that our own government
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
5. Is refusing to protect folks from racial terror. This isn't just a normal type of pain for black folks, it's a historic pain reminiscent
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
6. Of our grandparents being beat for daring to integrate white institutions and their parents being hung from trees while hundreds of
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
7. White people look on, have lunch, and law enforcement not only does nothing but even participates. If we can't count on our own
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
8. Government to interview when you clearly have terrorists wanting to murder us then what the fuck do we do? I know some jackass is going
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
10. Folks have been emboldened by Trump giving them a wink and a nod when they do this kinda stuff but I don't know of we can do 3.5 more
— Black Aziz Ansari ???? (@Freeyourmindkid) August 13, 2017
Journalists/writers
The emphasize on protecting free speech in regards to these events is really something to see. Wasn't the case with Ferguson or Baltimore. https://t.co/7NrUdk6Xxw
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) August 12, 2017
If Hillary were President she'd have already condemned the nazis—There also wouldn't be any in the White House—but her emails???? #ImpeachTrump
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 12, 2017
I don't want these savages to EVER complain again about ppl who are ACTUAL targets of oppression protesting… #charlottsville
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) August 12, 2017
. @realDonaldTrump What the HELL are you talking about?! What "many sides"? #charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/v0bVAqRCrW
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) August 12, 2017
Literally, "Whataboutism."@realdonaldtrump is an accessory after the fact to domestic terrorism. He and his administration must go. Today. https://t.co/K7LzonRVW8
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 13, 2017
Dear Well-Meaning White People Who Want Nothing To Do With Alt-Right:
We, people of color, cannot carry this burden.
You must engage.
— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) August 12, 2017
Wild that your whole job is writing the same freshman history class essay every day https://t.co/FtoqQphLul
— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) August 13, 2017
Politicians
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…" pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
